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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR<br />
English poet ? Tve found somebody miles and<br />
miles above everybody—a young man, Lascelles<br />
Abercrombie — a mighty poet and brother to<br />
Browning. 11<br />
Other references in letters show how deep at this<br />
time Mr. Abercrombie's influence was. <strong>Rosenberg</strong><br />
calls his " Hymn of Love 11<br />
the finest poem of our<br />
time.<br />
He has now joined the Army, and writes from<br />
Bury St. Edmunds.<br />
To Edward Marsh (1915).<br />
" I have just joined the Bantams, and am down<br />
here amongst a horrible rabble. Falstaff 's scarecrows<br />
were nothing to these. Three out of every<br />
four have been scavengers, the fourth is a ticketof-leave.<br />
But that is nothing ; though while I'm<br />
waiting for my kit I'm roughing it a bit, having<br />
come down without even a towel. I dry myself with<br />
my pocket-handkerchief. I don't know whether<br />
I will be shifted as soon as I get my rig-out. 1 ''<br />
The next was written in hospital at Bury.<br />
To Edward Marsh.<br />
" First, not to alarm you <strong>by</strong> this heading, I must<br />
tell you that while running before the Colonel I<br />
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